Chapter 204: The Second Palace Master is Here

Zhuang Yue said: "Exactly! I told him not to come to Qiuzhouzhou city, but he insisted on coming; the Hidden Dragon Lantern Festival hasn't even officially started, and he has already almost died in the Ancestor Ze twice."

"You are actually so concerned about my safety; you know about the two times I encountered danger?" Li Li Youyi laughed.

Zhuang Yue turned her face away, not wanting to pay attention to him.

Li Li Youyi let out a long sigh and explained: "It has nothing to do with the Hidden Dragon Lantern Festival; I was born with a fire fate, and I encounter disaster when I meet water. But after midnight tonight, entering the new year, my fortune might change."

This was naturally nonsense!

But, from the Arctic expedition, to the several times he encountered danger in the Sui River, to the two times he almost died in the Ancestor Ze as Zhuang Yue said, Li Li Youyi truly suspected that he might really be restrained by water.

He even felt that in the future, when encountering people whose names contained water, like Yang Yang Qingxi, he had to be more on guard.

Zhuang Yue was amused by him and giggled non-stop.

Jiang Ning was very helpless and had the idea of taking extreme measures.

Li Li Youyi said: "I am just curious, Fairy Yu, how did you know that I would be on this street heading to the Profound Heaven Stone Wall at this time, and be able to block me precisely?"

"Your Nine Li Hidden Sect has my people," Jiang Ning said.

For Jiang Ning, Yin Thirteen's identity as a Nine Li Hidden Sect member was not hard to guess.

It could be said to be an open card.

Outside the carriage, the old man driving the carriage made a young voice: "The angel cannot harm me! I am loyal to the Nine Li Hidden Sect first, and then I serve the imperial court."

The old man was naturally Yin Thirteen in disguise.

Jiang Ning suddenly said: "The Second Palace Master has come to Qiuzhouzhou city."

"What?"

Li Li Youyi was greatly shocked.

The Second Palace Master of the Lingxiao Palace was known as the second person in the world, second only to Yu Yu Yaozi.

The current Second Palace Master was no different from the first person in the world. After all, Yu Yu Yaozi had not appeared in public for a long time, and almost all matters of the imperial court were decided by the Second Palace Master.

Jiang Ning said: "What I should say, I have already said! Even what I shouldn't say, I have said! Li Li Youyi, I will give you two paths."

"First, in this carriage, as long as I make a move, you won't escape. I will seal you, and Yin Thirteen will immediately take you out of the city; returning to Lizhou is fine, going to Fuzhou is fine, it will be safer than the Qiuzhouzhou city that follows."

Li Li Youyi saw that she was not joking and immediately became vigilant, his Fa Qi circulating endlessly: "I choose the second path!"

Jiang Ning said in a more serious tone: "The second path! This carriage will drive all the way to the Profound Heaven Stone Wall, where the Wu Xiu of the world are gathered, and there are countless older figures watching. At that time, you will walk off the carriage with me; guess how the people of the world will look at it?"

Li Li Youyi had a massive headache: "Riding in the same carriage with Fairy Yu, I will inevitably become a thorn in the eyes of countless Wu Xiu; at this time point of the Hidden Dragon Lantern Festival, I fear I will die miserably. To force me to submit, you don't hesitate to enter the game yourself... sigh, why kill a thousand enemies and lose eight hundred? What hatred and what resentment?"

Jiang Ning had long thought everything through: "It's not necessarily losing eight hundred! You can join the imperial court; the Second Palace Master has always appreciated supreme geniuses."

"Is there no third path?" Li Li Youyi said.

Jiang Ning said: "No."

"Too unappreciative! My young lady wants to help you, wants to save you," Zhuang Yue said.

Li Li Youyi bowed, saying weakly: "I thank Fairy Yu for her good intentions; in order to forcibly repay the favor, you have also taken great pains."

Jiang Ning's brows furrowed slightly, but they immediately unfolded, saying faintly: "You still have a quarter of an hour to consider! In another quarter of an hour, we will be very close to the Profound Heaven Stone Wall; once there are many people on the street, we will have no choice."

Li Li Youyi naturally did not want to leave, and even less did he want to be coerced by Jiang Ning into joining the imperial court.

In the imperial court, almost all were eunuchs. There was also the perverted rule that Green Luan Terrace Angels could not stay in the same room with men, which showed it was definitely not a good place.

More importantly, the imperial court was indeed already surrounded on all sides; who knew how long it could hold on...

Thinking of this.

A flash of inspiration struck Li Li Youyi's mind, and he instantly sorted everything out, his body relaxing, and he laughed: "I seem to understand!"

"Understand what?" Jiang Ning was puzzled.

Li Li Youyi said: "With the Hidden Dragon Lantern Festival imminent, you risk such a great danger to see me; it shows there is a reason you must see me. If we don't meet tonight, perhaps everything will be too late tomorrow?"

"Continue," Jiang Ning said.

Li Li Youyi said: "It is known to all under heaven that the Dueguan holding the Hidden Dragon Lantern Festival in Qiuzhouzhou city is to build momentum for the Brother Zuoqiu sect. A large number of young Wu Xiu from the imperial court have rushed here, not to cheer for the Brother Zuoqiu sect, but to crush the Brother Zuoqiu sect."

"I boldly guess that after midnight tonight, once the Hidden Dragon Lantern Festival officially begins, the young Wu Xiu of the imperial court will make a move against the Brother Zuoqiu sect and the Nine Li Clan. And it must be a fierce method like a storm sweeping away fallen leaves; tomorrow at dawn, perhaps it will be full streets of corpses, blood flowing like a river."

Seeing Jiang Ning did not immediately refute.

Li Li Youyi knew he had guessed correctly, and his scalp went numb, his back covered in cold sweat.

He also finally understood the gold content of Jiang Ning's previous sentence "The Second Palace Master has come," representing that the imperial court was not afraid of the Brother Zuoqiu sect turning against them at all, and the young generation of the imperial court could let go and do it.

Li Li Youyi asked: "Is it the Second Palace Master's order? Or Ge Ge Xiantong's strategy?"

Jiang Ning did not answer, sighing gloomily: "What I should say, I have already said! You really only have two paths to choose from now! Shall I help you choose one?"

"No, I have a third path."

Li Li Youyi said: "If the young generation of the imperial court chooses to bloodbath the Brother Zuoqiu sect and the Nine Li Clan tonight, it will be a huge mistake; all of you young Wu Xiu of the imperial court participating in the Hidden Dragon Lantern Festival will be doomed."

Every word was sonorous, like a hammer striking into Jiang Ning's mind.

She said: "Are you trying to tell me that this is the Brother Zuoqiu sect's territory, and the Brother Zuoqiu sect's Five Seas Realm Wu Xiu are far more numerous than other forces, so we are no match? Then you are very wrong!"

"In the Five Seas Realm, human sea tactics are useful! Even against me, against experts of the level of East Dragon West Pig, South Tiger North Sword, they are all useful and will be piled to death by the human sea."

"But figures of the level of Ge Ge Xiantong and Green Luan Sheng Lin You can kill through no matter how many Five Seas Realm Wu Xiu there are; human sea tactics are useless against them."

Li Li Youyi had never seen Ge Ge Xiantong and Green Luan Sheng Lin You fight, so he did not know their combat power, but he believed Jiang Ning's judgment.

He said: "Even if Ge Ge Xiantong is strong, he will definitely be injured. Do you really think that figures of the level of Cang Li and Brother Zuoqiu Ting cannot hurt Ge Ge Xiantong when they are fighting for their lives?"

"Ge Ge Xiantong being injured is the time for Green Luan Sheng Lin You to kill him."

"Jiang Ning, you have all made a fatal mistake of being blinded by a leaf! You think that the Dueguan choosing the Brother Zuoqiu sect will make the Brother Zuoqiu sect the target of public criticism."

"But the real target of public criticism has always been your imperial court."

"Your powerful appearance can indeed bluff people, and Ge Ge Xiantong is even known as the world's number one. But if the world's number one is injured, if the powerful appearance shows a wound, countless predators will immediately be drawn, and you will be besieged by all forces."

"At that time, what will you use to block Green Luan Sheng Lin You?"

Although Jiang Ning wore a veil and her eyes were serene, the stormy emotions rose and fell with her full breasts, clearly her heart was not as calm as a flat lake.

Zhuang Yue only felt that what Li Li Youyi said was extremely reasonable, her face changed drastically, and she could not help but want to speak.

Li Li Youyi struck while the iron was hot and said again: "If I were you, not only would I not attack the Brother Zuoqiu sect and the Nine Li Clan tonight, but I would secretly contact them, or form a temporary alliance, or set up a killing trap to remove the biggest threat, Green Luan Sheng Lin You, first. Once the situation is controllable and the strong enemies are removed, it won't be too late for us to decide the winner."

Jiang Ning said: "What kind of joke are you making? The imperial court forming an alliance with the Brother Zuoqiu Sect? Do you think Brother Zuoqiu Ting would believe us?"

"It's not an alliance; it's a public rivalry with secret cooperation."

Li Li Youyi continued: "Shouldn't you be connecting this to the overall situation of the world? This is just the Hidden Dragon Lantern Festival! Do you know what it means to say that 'war does not abhor deceit'?"

"The more unbelievable something is, the more likely it is to be a trap to kill the Green Luan-born Born Qilin."

"The Brother Zuoqiu Sect is controlled by the Vertical and Horizontal School. Brother Zuoqiu Ting knows better than you how to form alliances, how to break a deadlock, and how to create a favorable situation."

"Go back and tell Ge Ge Xiantong that in the struggle for the world, the result is what matters most, not the process. Even the most bitter enemies can become temporary allies in the face of a crisis. If he is arrogant and self-willed, then naturally, someone will be there to collect his corpse when the time comes."

"For the Green Luan-born Born Qilin, his flesh should be the most delicious."

Zhuang Yue's beautiful eyes rippled, and then she muttered in a low voice: "I feel like you are more arrogant than anyone!"

Jiang Ning digested everything Li Li Youyi had said. The imperial court certainly had many arrangements and backup plans and was full of confidence, but it was impossible to defeat all the martial cultivators in the city.

Li Li Youyi knew that his third path already had a chance of succeeding; now, it depended on Jiang Ning's decision after she thought it over.

After a long while, Jiang Ning said: "I have to admit, perhaps you are right. But it is too difficult to implement; allies without trust are sometimes more terrifying than enemies."

Li Li Youyi's hanging heart dropped, a smile spilled from the corner of his mouth, and he looked at the provincial governor's official robe she was wearing, asking the question he had wanted to ask since entering the carriage: "How is your cultivation of the Dragon Awakening Art going? Can you control the dragon soul power within the provincial governor's official robe?"

"How do you know I am cultivating the Dragon Awakening Art? Did Brother Zuoqiu Ting tell you? Are you probing my strength on her behalf?" Jiang Ning asked with a smile, her eyes slightly cold.

Li Li Youyi cried out that he was wronged: "I just saw that your cultivation seemed to have improved and your aura was very oppressive, so I asked casually. Can you let me go now? If you don't let me go, there will be more people around!"

Jiang Ning's seventh sea ancestral field had never been fully cultivated; she was still in the stage of expanding and storing Qi, so her cultivation naturally kept improving.

"To be honest, I really don't want to let you off the carriage! It is a pity that a talent like you cannot be used by the imperial court." Actually, the second half of the sentence she wanted to say was that he must be eliminated.

Li Li Youyi suddenly had an idea and smiled: "Fairy Yu doesn't think I can't break your move, does she? Do you know what kind of reputation Yang Yang Qingxi has now? You don't want to follow in her footsteps, do you?"

Jiang Ning's eyebrows furrowed tightly; she really wanted to kick him off the carriage and shouted: "I've never seen someone like you who is in such a hurry to find death. Since you chose to stay, hide yourself well. Don't be used by some Brother Zuoqiu or some Ting and be pushed to the forefront. Get off the carriage!"

"Many thanks to Fairy Yu for letting me go."

After Li Li Youyi got off the carriage, the smile on his face quickly vanished, and his expression became extremely grave.

What choice the imperial court would make tonight was still an unknown; after all, Jiang Ning was not the one who held the decision-making power.

Li Li Youyi walked forward unhurriedly; on the street, there were more and more people, packed tightly.

Looking up, at the end of Huo Qiankun Street, the brightly lit buildings suddenly disappeared, as if reaching the end of civilization. A majestic ancient mountain, shrouded in clouds and mist, rose from the ground; the mountain was steep, occupied a vast area, and was covered with cliffs and waterfalls.

All vision was filled by this world-famous ancestral mountain, "Peach Plum Mountain." The mountain's presence was oppressive, and it was rumored that there were mountains within the mountain that could connect to unknown spaces.

On the Half-Sky Cliff a thousand meters above the ground, the magic power was thick and formed clouds, shielding the mountain peak where clouds turned and mist moved. No one knew what kind of mysterious scene lay behind the cloud layer.

(End of chapter)